2:57 AM,
Aug. 23, 2013

Written by

Dana Milbank

Pfc. Bradley Manning got a dishonorable discharge at his sentencing, but he received it with an honorable disposition.

When the judge read out the young soldier's 35-year sentence Wednesday morning for giving classified information to WikiLeaks, family members wept and supporters cried out, "We are with you! You are a hero!"

But Manning, 25, whisked quickly from the room after the brief sentencing, was philosophical. "It's OK. It's all right,'" he told his attorney, Lt. Col. David Coombs, who was in tears over his client's fate. "I'm going to be OK. I'm going to get through this." ...